If someone says they’re not a fan of 70s disco songs, there’s a good chance they’re not being truthful. Despite the backlash the dance genre has gotten through the years, who wouldn’t boogie oogie ...

Disco is a music genre and a subculture born out of a dance floor and pioneered by Black musicians, DJs and producers in the 1970s and early 1980s. The word disco comes from the Italian discoteca, ...

Key elements of the disco sound continued to pop up for another decade or so (credit work by Nile Rodgers of Chic after a shift to the producer’s chair) before disco was largely relegated to history.

The evocative sounds of Donna Summer songs are instantly recognizable. While her music was decidedly disco in tempo, her groundbreaking use of synthesizers set her sound apart and set the stage for a ...

Disco music originated in the 1960s at underground venues popular with LGBTQ+, Black, and Latinx Americans. Still, it wasn’t long before the subculture spread from clubs in New York and Philadelphia ...

Because they got so massively popular for a stretch in the late ‘70s by leaning into the sound that was prevalent at the time, the Bee Gees are often pigeonholed as disco artists—at least by those who ...

There was once an indelible tension between rock and disco, culminating in a so-called "disco demolition" night in 1979 that devolved into a riot. As the decades have rolled past, however, much of ...